vCloud Availability – Resizing Disk of Protected VM

A customer asked how to resize a disk of very large VM (file server) which is protected with vCloud Availability and thus replicated to the cloud.

It is not straight forward as the underlying replication engine relies on tracking changed blocks and both the source and target disks must have the same size. In short the replication must be stopped for a moment and then re-established after the necessary disk resizing. Here is step by step process: